Local and Global, but Not National: Citizenship Education of South Asian Migrant Students in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
Local and Global, but Not National: Citizenship Education of South Asian Migrant Students in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
This article examines how schools in Hong Kong attempt to craft South Asian migrant students into desirable citizens and how the youths understand themselves as members of Hong Kong and of a global community. The contestation has to do both with how South Asians are viewed in Hong Kong and with how post-colonial Hong Kong is related to China. The process of citizen-making of transnational youths, I argue, is best understood at the local–national–global intersection.
Publication date
2020
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 51(2): 146-164
ISSN
1548-1492
URL of article
Specialisation
Social Sciences
Theme
National politics
Education
Diasporas and Migration